“Lawmakers slash funds, frustrating my efforts” – Fashola on Lagos-Ibadan expressway project

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has accused the National Assembly of sabotaging the completion of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Fashola said the lawmakers slashed N21billion from the budgeted sum of N31billion.

He also said a sum of N5billion was slashed off the proposed sum for the Second Niger Bridge.

“What I have in my budget now is primary healthcare centres, boreholes. That was the meeting we had with the Acting President and that was the reason why the budget was not signed on time.”

“We were asked to complete those abandoned projects; the budget of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was reduced by the National Assembly from N31billion to N10billion.”

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Fashola, who said funds saved were “diverted” to projects into projects that were not the government’s priorities, also said the erratic power supply in the country was because the lawmakers “cut the budget for Manbila power project and the Bodo Bridge that connects the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Station.”

He labelled the lawmakers’ actions as “unfair” to Nigerians who pay taxes to get things fixed in the country.